Leavings Quotes

#1. Remember, it's the winners write the history books, and the losers get the leavings.

Joanne Harris

#2. The library, like the thrift shop, specialised in the leavings of the elderly dead.

Nell Zink

#3. Some breakfast food manufacturer hit upon the simple notion of emptying out the leavings of carthorse nose bags, adding a few other things like unconsumed portions of chicken layer's mash, and the sweepings of racing stables, packing the mixture in little bags and selling them in health food shops.

Frank Muir

#4. This town has done us dirty
This town has bled us dry
We've been here for a long time
And we'll be here 'til we die
So we'll finish off the leavings
Of blood and glue and beer
And burn this bloody city down
In the summer of the year

Shane MacGowan

#5. When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

Jonathan Swift

#6. If bumblebee leavings and stump paste are so good for you, why can't any of those guys (in the health stores) grow full beards?

Calvin Trillin

#7. And as to you life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, / No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.

Walt Whitman

#8. Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious.

Hugo Black

#9. Christmas music fills our ears with tales of a Palestinian miracle birth, a generous Turkish saint whom the Dutch dressed in a red suit, and a Druid ceremonial tree ... I

Barbara Kingsolver

#10. Blessing: Constructive thought directed toward anyone or condition. You bless a man when you recognize the divinity in him.

Ernest Holmes

#11. The entire economy, of course, is locked in a down cycle right now. Last time we weathered this was during another Bush presidency in '90. We were locked in it for a year and a half and everyone came out of it.

David Talbot

#12. We really wanted to know all the unknowable things about each other and how we were the same and how we were different, if we even were, maybe nobody is.

Miranda July

#13. It is always some consolation in sorrow to feel that it is shared, and any burden laid on several is carried more lightly or removed.

Heloise

#14. I was making stickers for guys' bands. I was in the front row photographing bands, booking bands, doing all of the kind of backstage stuff, and I didn't even think for a second I could do it, and then I saw Babes in Toyland, and all that changed.

Kathleen Hanna

#15. He took blue and red and placed them next to each other, painting the eyes of an angel. And I saw the angel's eyes turn violet

Milorad Pavic

#16. No lie ever reaches old age.

Sophocles

#17. True freedom, which is full joy, is the complete recognition of law and adaptation to it. Bondage comes from ignorance of law or opposition to it.

John Andreas Widtsoe

#18. Changing the world is not easy, but its pursuit will change you profoundly.

Leroy Hood

#19. The most useless are those who never change through the years.

James M. Barrie

#20. Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.

Alex Kapranos